"Walk Away"

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Of all the bands to gain a degree of prominence in the grunge era, Come were the most slavishly devoted to the blues. At times their music verged on Rolling Stones-style orthodoxy, a feeling that singer Thalia Zedek has maintained some 21 years after her former band’s startling (and soon to be reissued) debut album, Eleven:Eleven. "Walk Away" is the opening cut from her forthcoming solo record, Via, which offers a perfect demonstration of how well her nicotine-ravaged voice has matured over the years. Zedek knows how to depict an inglorious sink to the bottom in song, but here a sense of hope cuts through the long shadows, largely due to David Michael Curry’s escalating viola runs. "The future doesn’t change the past," Zedek sings, still unable to let go of the decades of emotional damage she’s stored up to release in song.